Subject: Re: MH-style folders?

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:20:28 +0000 (GMT)

Yes, Pine will handle MH style folders.  A couple of provisos:

*  Pine must have been compiled to include the MH mailbox driver module
(it gets this included by default, so you probably don't have any worries
on this front).

*  You must name the folder properly when telling Pine its name.  This
involves including a magic "#mh" at the approproiate point in its name.
You can find details by:

	1.  Start Pine
	2.  Give the List Folders (L) command
	3.  Ask for help (?)

These help screens tell you about the List Folders screen and, further
down, about naming folders when specifying them to Pine.

(Note that the "#mh" string is NOT part of the filename on disk, just part
of the specification string you give to Pine to identify the folder.)

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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On 27 Dec 1996, James L. McGill wrote:

> Is it possible to use MH style folders with pine?
> I am interested in using procmail's capability to
> write to MH folders, but I suspect that Pine is not
> able to deal with them :-(
> 
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